Pamela Wood
Pamela Wood covers Baltimore County government and politics. She joined The Sun in 2013 as an Anne Arundel County reporter and previously wrote for The Capital, the Maryland Gazette, The Daily Times (Salisbury) and Gannett News Service. She grew up in Howard County and graduated from the University of Maryland.
Recent Articles
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What started the Baltimore riot? A reporter explains the updated — but still incomplete — answer.
On the first episode of Roughly Speaking: Newsroom Edition, Baltimore Sun reporters Pamela Wood and Kevin Rector discuss new information released by the Maryland Transit Administration that relates to the April 2015 unrest following Freddie Gray's death.
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Maryland to mark 'Freedom of the Press Day' by honoring journalists on anniversary of shooting at Capital
Maryland’s journalists — including five newspaper employees killed in their Annapolis office last summer — will be honored each June 28 after Gov. Larry Hogan and legislative leaders signed a resolution Thursday creating “Freedom of the Press Day.” The resolution doesn’t dictate how the day should...
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Maryland Gov. Hogan calls special General Assembly session for May 1
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is calling state lawmakers back to Annapolis on May 1 so the House of Delegates can elect a new speaker. State Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Pro tem Adrienne Jones sent a joint letter Thursday to the governor, asking him to call a special session...
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Three powerful Democratic leaders vie to succeed Michael Busch as speaker of Maryland House
There’s now officially a three-way race to become the next speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. Hours after a funeral Tuesday for Speaker Michael Busch, Democratic Del. Dereck Davis of Prince George’s County and Democratic Del. Maggie McIntosh of Baltimore confirmed they are campaigning...
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'He was us': Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch remembered at funeral as compassionate, dedicated
When the elementary school in the historically African-American community of Parole in Annapolis was at risk of being closed, Rhonda Pindell Charles knew just who to push to save the school: Michael Erin Busch. Pindell Charles wrote Busch, her state delegate, nearly daily in a quest to keep open...
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Gov. Hogan, Maryland leaders, constituents honor House of Delegates Speaker Busch at State House a final time
Michael E. Busch may have ascended to one of the most powerful positions in Maryland government, but he never lost focus on the people who put them there, mourners recalled Monday. It was voters like Curtis Spencer, a community activist from Annapolis’ Bloomsbury Square neighborhood, who worked...
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Maryland legislature passes laws to make health insurance enrollment easier and create drug price board
Health coverage will be easier to secure for uninsured Marylanders and prescriptions could become cheaper for government workers under legislation passed by the General Assembly, which took up a slate of related measures before adjourning for the year. One law would require the uninsured to check...
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Baltimore County Del. Adrienne Jones says she's running for speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
Del. Adrienne A. Jones, a Baltimore County Democrat who ran the Maryland House of Delegates floor sessions during the illness of the late Speaker Michael Busch, said Wednesday that she is running for the job of speaker. Jones, 64, was a close ally of Busch, an Anne Arundel Democrat who died Sunday...